SSD vs Hard Drive - What's Better?

This is a debate that has been happening for years! To us it is a no brainer on which you should go with...

[andrewszombie]

I still buy Hard drive for backup and mass storage. Hard drives still cheaper at capacity over SSDs for backup and archiving but I have seen SSDs prices crashing

[sioux]

The "longer lifespan" is a common myth. I replaced two ssds already and my hitachi drive still works

[punkmunkie]

Hard drives are still way cheaper in big quantities 4tb to 8tb can often be half the price than the ssd equivalent option

[teamcannonfodder]

Lots of missing factors here, hard drives come in much higher capacities, ssds have limited write amounts, my hard drives actually tend to last longer than some of my SSDs and I'm going for decent brands not cheap ones. Hard drives are a lot slower but depending on what your using it for may not be a factor for example storing film or audio it will be find or storing older games, load time is the only thing it massively changes

[lmaoboxuser]

"hdd' short life"
//me with my 6 year old 1tb hdd..

[brickyrobot]

Saying they're the same price is a bit of a stretch especially at multi-terabyte storage sizes. However I'll admit there is competition when you put a dollar value on the benefits of solid state.

[AtomicSub]

Above 2tb hdds become a lot cheaper than ssds

[singletona]

Can confirm. The move from spinny drive to SSD is honestly night and day. Your system will feel snappier not because of more memory but because of the severely shortened seek times for data.

Then there is the sound. you don't realize how much noise a spinny drive makes until you swap out. I had always thought the noise was my fans. NOPE. that wrrr was the platter.

Get an SSD. Even for an older computer like mine it is a massive improvement.

[JustinsGarage]

SSDs are about 1/3 the price they were 1-2 years ago. I have trouble tracking down HDDs for cheaper than SSDs anymore.

[Flopagoon]

The editor on this video is definitely both solid and …. Solid work

[kanitsrvng]

I’ll answer this from my perspective.
This whole ‘HDDs fail a lot’ is just commonly spewed bs. The reality of it is, even for a gamer, as long as you’re not writing to them 24/7, they last a very long time. You’ll only experience failure if you’re rough with them, or buy from a bad brand, i.e. Seagate…

SSDs are also good, but have a high failure rate if you’re constantly reading and writing to them.
The whole thing is, install something, keep it there and chill.

When I upgrade PCs, I always bring over a ton of storage, just because it’s convenient. I keep my games safe and everything else.

Also, mods get taken down a lot.
Wanna preserve mods? Store them on a huge HDD and call it a day. A standard 8TB goes for like $129 nowadays which is dumb cheap.

[violinsongs]

An hard drive is usually found in servers ( an ssd is used as a boot drive tho ), because when the hdd fails, the plate is perfectly fine, it's the motor and the read/write heads that are damaged, so basically, taking out the plate out of an broken hdd and put it in a new one, is much easier and less risky than taking out the memory chips on an ssd and put it in a new one.

[bbridder]

I mean i bought a refurbished 16tb hdd for 200 and i personally can't wait for a 16tb ssd for that price.

[KingdomRepublic]

In small sizes such as 256 and 512 Gigs the difference between an SSD is usually just $10 than the HDD of the same size so obviously going SSD is the choice here.

However when you to large size such 2, 4 & 8 Terabytes the HDD are half the prices of an SSD

[Johnny_C]

Is it overkill if I have 2 nvme, 2 external ssd, and an hdd?

[chanyoung]

Oh and a funny thing about the new evidence, the jury said they didn’t even consider the new evidence to come to their guilty verdict. That poor mother’s text was truly a testimony from beyond the grave.

[euphobone]

Damn.... You just wrekt that HDD...LOL 0:23

[goofiando]

The random 2tb hdd i got in my pre built 6 years ago still strong ash

[TheDude]

Harddrives are still much cheaper per GB than about any SSD. Also the deterioration is the same for SSDs. SSDs are mostly limited by the number of writes so if you need lots of data storage and you write a lot to it then HDDs might be the way to go. For any regular PC though its SSDs all the way.

[linuxretrogamer]

HDDs are still cheaper at higher capacities and good for a lot of non speed sensitive applications including many older/retro/indie/emulated games.

When I built my system last year I went for a 120GB SATA SSD Boot drive and 4TB SSHD for game storage. Since added a 1TB NVMe for modern AAA titles.

By the time I build the next rig a single 4TB min. NVMe will be practical cost:performance. 2TB NVMe’s are pretty much there already now, unlike a year ago.